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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Buzruh/Alone In The Dark/2013 Full Length Review

Buzruh are a 1 man band from Turkey that plays a very depressive form of black metal and this is a review of his self released 2013 album "Alone In The Dark".

"Looking For Mortality (Like An Animal In The Dark)" which is also the first song on the album opens up with spoken word samples and sound effects which leads up to heavy guitar riffs and drums and a few seconds later depressive black metal vocals make their way into the song and towards the end there is a brief use off blast beats and faster riffing.

"Don't Give Me Hope, Give Me A Weapon" begins with heavy guitar riffs and drums along with some grim depressive screams and the song stays in a slow depressive black metal direction throughout its 5 minutes.

"Hatethislife" opens up with dark and heavy sounding guitar riffs along with some drums and a minute later depressive black metal screams start coming into the song and the song stays in a slower direction.

"Scream With Me" starts up with dark and melodic sounding guitar riffs along with some drums and a few seconds later black metal screams that are mixed down low in the mix come into the song as well as a brief use of faster guitar riffing and blast beats and then the music starts alternating between slow and fast parts.

"Sun Is Dead, Hallelujah" kicks in with heavy guitar riffs and drums and a few seconds alter black metal screams start to make their way into the song and the song sticks to the same direction during its time.

"Waiting In Purgatory" comes in with dark and melodic sounding guitar riffs and drums before going into a faster direction along with some blast beats as well as alternating between slow and fast parts and after a couple of minutes black metal screams finally make their way into the song.

"Suicide Is An Option(But Think Twice)" hits it off with dark and melodic guitar riffs and drums and a couple of minutes later depressive black metal screams finally make their way into the song and the song sticks to a slow direction.

"Alone In The Dark" which is also the title track begins with dark and melodic sounding guitar riffs along with some drum beats and a few seconds later black metal vocals start to make their way into the song.

"Winter Come And Kill Me" is introduced with heavy guitar riffs and drums along with some depressive black metal screams a few seconds later and you can hear a small amount of melody in the guitar riffing.

"This Hatred Will Live Forever" makes its way in with dark and heavy sounding guitar riffs and drum beats and a minute later suicidal black metal screams make their way in but are mixed down low in the mix and then the music speeds up for a few seconds along with a small amount of blast beats.

"Black Bloody Knife" finds its way in with dark, melodic and heavy guitar riffs along with some drum beats and a couple of minute later black metal screams finally make their way into the song and the music sticks to a slower direction.

"Back To The Primitive" has its opening with distorted amp noise before adding in drum beats and a few seconds alter heavy guitar riffs start coming in along with some black metal vocals a few seconds later.

"I Fucking Hate You" has its beginnings with heavy mid paced guitar riffs and drum beats along with some depressive black metal screams a few seconds later and the song stays in the same direction during its 3 minutes.

"And the Sun Is Slowly Dying" which is also the last song on the album opens up with dark atmospheric sounding ambient synths and the song is all instrumental.

Song lyrics cover depressive, suicidal and hateful themes, while the production has a very dark, raw and primitive sound to it.

In my opinion Buzruh are a very great sounding depressive black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Looking For Mortality (Like An Animal In The Dark)" "Scream With Me" "Suicide Is An Option(But Think Twice)" and "I Fucking Hate You". RECOMMENDED BUY.